I've been a birdwatcher for nearly 30 years and I would consider strongly whether you want to use them for daytime use as well or not. I have found that fairly cheap bins serve pretty well for astro use, but are very disappointing for daytime use.
For birdwatching I wouldn't look at anything less than about $400 (for 8x40 or the like), but you can probably pay less than half of that for very acceptable bins for astro use.
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